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TIL that to avoid being arrested for their sexuality, male homosexual prostitutes in Venice would perform at Carnival wearing a type of cat mask called a gnaga. Sometimes they also carried baskets of kittens.

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won5J TIL that the earliest form of sushi originated on the Mekong River (parts of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam) between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC. To prevent the fish spoiling in the heat they were gutted packed with glutinous rice and stored in barrels. It spread to China and then Japan.
xX6o TIL wild monkeys can be seen on the Silver River in Florida.
pYYkZ TIL that lobster used to be the poor people’s protein up until the 1880s, to the point that prisoners complain if they have to eat it more then 3 times a week
8a8OP TIL that the deepest humans have ever dug is 40,603 ft, and it would still take another 60,000 ft just to reach the end of the crust! And another 20 million ft to reach the center of the earth!
W7w5L TIL there are 24 seasons in South Korea.